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Source: Mark Twain to Mrs. Fairbanks. Edited by Dixon Wecter. San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library ([])

Cue: "I beg pardon"

Source format: "Transcript"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

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Revision History: AB

MTPDocEd
To Mary Mason Fairbanks
12 May 1868 • San Francisco, Calif. ( MTMF , 27 n. 1, UCCL 02732)
San ⒶemendationF. May 12.
Dear ⒶemendationMother—

I Ⓐemendationbeg pardon for forgetting the picture when I wrote, the other day.1explanatory note I send it now.

Kind Ⓐemendationregards to all.
YoursⒶemendation

Textual Commentary
12 May 1868 • To Mary Mason Fairbanks • San Francisco, Calif. • UCCL 02732
Source text(s):

MTMF , 27 n. 1, copy #1 in CU-MARK.

Previous Publication:

L2 , 216; none known except the copy-text.

Provenance:

Wecter’s text in MTMF was based on a typed transcript (now lost) owned by Fairbanks’s grandson, Thomas Nast Fairbanks. Clemens’s MS has not been found.

Explanatory Notes
1 See 1 and 5 May 68 to Fairbanks.
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ  San •  “San
Ⓐ  Dear •  “Dear
Ⓐ  I •  “I
Ⓐ  Kind •  “Kind
Ⓐ  Yours •  “Yours”
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